Effect of Organisational Climate on Employees’ Organisational Affective Commitment the Case of Ethiotelecom Western Region

Abstract

The complexity of an organization rose for the need of creating a suitable working environment via investigating the effect of organizational Climate components (employees’ perceived autonomy, Bad Teamwork, reward and recognition, unfairness and supervisor’s support) on employees’ affective commitment in Ethiotelecom Western Region. For this study, Structural Equation model was used to analyse the data gathered from 250 employees through questionnaire from on non-managerial position employees out of which 236 were found valid and used for this study. The results of the study acknowledged that all organizational climate variables (autonomy, bad teamwork, reward and recognition, unfairness and supervisors’ support has a statistically significant effect on affective commitment of employees’ to the organization, nonetheless bad teamwork and unfairness has a negative and significant effect on affective commitment of employees’ to the study area. The study recommended structural transformation should take place in the organization to increase the motivation and commitment of employees’ primarily on the areas of bad teamwork and employees’ perception of unfairness to create a strong affective emotional attachment towards an organization. The conceptual relationship of organizational climate variables (employees’ perceived autonomy, bad teamwork, reward and recognition, unfairness and supervisor’s support) on affective commitment employees’ put an intense credit on the climate of an organization.